Overbury secures Barclays fit-out

FIT-OUT specialist Overbury has picked up the contract for Barclays’ new base at 4 Piccadilly Place in Manchester.

The bank has agreed a lease on 80,000 sq ft at the Carlyle Group-owned block close to the railway station.

Overbury banners now adorn the windows and work appears to have started.

Barclays is moving staff from Byrom and Astley House on Quay Street and its existing office on Mosley Street. Its 35,000 sq ft base in Spinningfields is unaffected.

Overbury, a division of Morgan Sindall, has a base in Manchester and was responsible for fitting out both the BBC and ITV offices at MediaCityUK in Salford Quays. The company had not replied to an invitation to comment on the contract win at the time of publication.

Byrom and Astley House is owned by the West Midlands Pension Fund which is drawing up plans to replace it with a 14-storey tower.